INDEPENDENT VOTERS v. ILL. COMMERCE COM'N

No. 62850.

117 Ill.2d 90 (1987)

510 N.E.2d 850

INDEPENDENT VOTERS OF ILLINOIS, Appellant, v. THE ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION et al. (Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Opinion filed June 16, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Aram A. Hartunian, Robert M. Weissbourd and James M. Bradtke, of Hartunian, Futterman & Howard, of Chicago, for appellant.

Thomas P. Hester, Edward Butts and Michael J. Karson, of Chicago, for appellee.

Neil F. Hartigan, Attorney General, of Springfield (Hercules F. Bolos and David L. Nixon, Special Assistant Attorneys General, of Chicago), for the Illinois Commerce Commission.

Stephen J. Moore and Thomas H. Rowland, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Office of Public Counsel.

Alex Elson and Susan H. Walcoff, of Rosenthal & Schanfield, of Chicago, for amicus curiae Citizens Utility Board.


Appellate court affirmed in part and reversed in part; circuit court affirmed in part and reversed in part; cause remanded.

JUSTICE WARD delivered the opinion of the court:

This appeal concerns utility rates which were originally set by order of the Illinois Commerce Commission in 1971. On an appeal involving the rates this court held that the Commission had improperly allowed certain expenses and deductions to the Illinois Bell Telephone Company (hereafter...

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